Duke Listens!: On the stairway to the Celestial Jukebox - a blog by Paul Lamere

A bit of a celebration in the Speech Group here in Sun Labs. According to the SourceForge statistics, as of today FreeTTS, the speech synthesizer written entirely in Java, has been downloaded over 100,000 times. Its popularity certainly has exceeded my expectations. It seems like I am hearing about a new application that uses FreeTTS almost every day.

Here's a WebStart demo of a talking clock that uses FreeTTS.

SpeechBot is a " simple IRC bot that connects to an IRC server and uses the FreeTTS speech synthesizer to read out loud all channel messages it receives."

SpeechBot was created by the folks at Jibble.org.